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Monday, 22 September 2014

I don't know, if you already knew, but I changed with my blog to a new url and to a different platform. I am not 100 % sure why I am doing it, but ... I am. So, maybe it's going to be a little bit of confusion here and there, but you can still check out my old posts and recipes around here at the old spot and everything new you find here:

From now on you will find my posts there. So, if you have some kind of link to my blog on yours, that would be the address to link to from now on. I will see how everything works at the new place. Sometimes there is just the need for change. Well, I had already a few changes in my life and some of them where quite negative. Now, I would be looking for big positive changes, but I don't know whether that will be it. I only hope, you still show up and read to what's going on in my kitchen and in my mind.I see you then ...

Saturday, 20 September 2014

I don't have to tell, you very easily recognise it yourself. It's almost two weeks ago I have posted something here. Yes, it's indeed oh so quiet here. There could be various reasons for this, but I try not to bore you with that. However, it could become even quieter around here ...Are you shocked?Well, it's a bit hard to think with an empty stomach. Have something to eat first. Why not have a pumpkin soup with chorizo. After all it's the season for it. For chorizo? Eh, why, chorizo is always in season and you never should put it away too far.Now's the time for squashes and pumpkins. Well, there are 7 pumpkins on my table or at least parts of them.So, why not have a soup - with pumpkin and chorizo ...

... I'm going to tell you also, what other ingredients you have to put in ...Ingredients:Olive oil300 g chorizo, kind of cubed1 carrot, roughly chopped300 g potatoes, roughly chopped1 kg butternut squash, roughly chopped4 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped100 g cherry tomatoes, quartered or halved200 g goat's cream cheese1-1,5 l water2 tsp. spicy paprika powderSplash of sherry vinegar50 g dried tomatoes, roughly chopped1 tsp. fennel seeds, crushed1 tsp. cuminSalt and pepperMethod:Let me try to tell you, how to put the soup together ... phew! Luckily I wrote things done a bit more detailed than usual.First of all, fry the pieces of chorizo in a bit of olive oil. Put the fried chorizo aside into a separate bowl.Having all those lovely juices from the frying of the chorizo in the pan, make things even lovelier by adding the garlic, crushed fennel seeds and the cumin to the pan.Then toss in the carrot, potatoes and squash. Let things work a bit in the pan to soften the vegetables.After that, it's time to add the paprika powder, the dried tomatoes and the water. Bring it to the boil and let everything simmer for quite a while until everything got even softer. Half an hour and even more will do. If you have the feeling, you need more water, add it.Having reached this state, it's time to blitz the content of the pan together with the goat's cheese.Afterwards, it can all go back to the pan. Then the chorizo returns to the pan, followed by the fresh cherry tomatoes. Heat everything up to eating temperature, adjust the seasoning with some salt and pepper and a splash of sherry vinegar. Ready for eating ...At this point I got a visitor, who didn't came for a meal, just to talk about a few things. So I left the soup on low heat ...... so what?Yes, the soup lost a lot of liquid and it looked rather like pumpkin mash or the kind of food you would feed to your baby (not that I know very much about these matters).

Let me call it pumpkin soup concentrate. You can add litres upon litres of water to make the soup for a while. So, if you have unexpected visitors ... the kind that are out for food ... here you go.Are you shocked?What for? I don't know what this is all about. Did I say I wanted to shut up shop? I don't think so. Nevertheless, the future is uncertain ...So, watch out for any news regarding Cooking Around the World ...